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Compact, rugged, and battery powered, the GT-1B is the ultimate mobile tone companion for every bassist. The flagship GT-1B gives bass players a massive range of pro tone-shaping power. Backed by BOSS’s flagship sound engine, you have full access to a huge selection of bass-optimized amps and effects for stage and studio playing. The streamlined interface lets you dial in sounds fast, while the onboard control switch and expression pedal enable you to adjust multiple effects in real time. And by connecting to BOSS TONE CENTRAL, you can download new patches, editing software, and more.

Boss GT1B Bass Multi Effects Processor Features

Flagship-class BOSS sound engine specially tuned for bass

Pro-level amps and effects in a light, compact floor unit

Essential tools on board for optimizing your core bass tone

Includes advanced MDP effects for maximum musical expression

Modern design with no hard edges enables safe transport in an instrument bag

Download pro patches and editor software for free at BOSS Tone Central (to be available in September 2017)

Flagship Tone Tools for Bass
Equipped with a bass-tuned version of BOSS’s most advanced sound engine, the GT-1B is absolutely packed with top-quality sound tools. A wide range of preamps are available for shaping your core tone, including updated favorites from the GT-10B and two all-new models. Premium MDP effects like limiter and distortion feature advanced BOSS tech to maintain your instrument’s character and response, enabling free-flowing musical expression. Graphic EQ, T-Wah, and other essentials are on hand too, plus impact effects such as Harmonist, Bass Synth, Defretter, and more. There’s also a complete array of mod, delay, and reverb effects, and even a looper for jamming and on-the-fly creativity.

Mobile Powerhouse
The GT-1B is designed for bassists on the move. It’s surprisingly lightweight and compact, making it ideal for tight stage setups and situations where you need to travel light. The rugged modern design is easy to slip in the accessory compartment of a bass bag, with no worries of hard edges causing damage to your instrument. AC or battery power provides flexibility for any performing situation, so you can always take your tone with you everywhere you play.

Sound Creation Made Easy
With the GT-1B’s intuitive interface, it’s simple to build sounds and fine-tune parameters, even if you’re new to multi-effects. Dedicated buttons provide instant editing access to each effect category, which you can adjust straight away via three panel knobs. The buttons also function as on/off switches, and feature status indicators that let you see which categories are enabled at a glance. Easy Select and Easy Edit functions streamline patch creation even more, allowing beginners and pros alike to achieve polished multi-effects sounds with just a few tweaks.

BOSS Tone Central and BOSS Tone Studio
At BOSS Tone Central, you’ll find a wide selection of free patch collections for the GT-1B. Programmed by top bassists, these patches are dialed-in and ready to use, and make great starting points for advanced players who like to create their own custom sounds. The free BOSS Tone Studio software provides a full-featured editor/librarian for the GT-1B, as well as integrated access to all the patch collections at BOSS Tone Central.

Pro Control in a Compact Space
The GT-1B’s three footswitches are smartly designed to provide patch selection, tuner access, looper control, and more in a minimal footprint. The dedicated CTL1 switch is freely assignable to functions like tap tempo, effects on/off, and numerous others, while the expression pedal and toe switch are assignable to volume, wah, pitch shift, and various effects parameters. If you crave even more control, there’s a jack for connecting up to two external footswitches or an expression pedal. And in addition to providing access to BOSS Tone Central and BOSS Tone Studio, the GT-1B’s USB jack lets you record tones directly to your favorite DAW.

Customer Reviews

In looking for something that was compact yet provided a lot of options, I found the Boss processor. It's great! Everything I was looking for, all in one! Gives me the opportunity to program various effects and switch between them effortlessly, not to mention the great price!

Vincent R.
Submitted: 12/16/2018

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Great Product

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Very easy to use. I pretty much found the sounds I was looking for with the factory presets, but I had no problems with making my own presets.This processor is well worth the money and so far my purchases with AMS have gone without any problems.I'm hooked!

Peter
Submitted: 11/13/2018

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Very nice

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Good sounds great price

Bruce Jenkins
Submitted: 11/7/2018

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I LOVE IT!!!

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This bass effects pedal is so easy to use and navigate. It has quick response to the buttons and menu. To sum up this pedal, you won’t be disappointed at all!

Efrain Flores
Submitted: 11/7/2018

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FREAKING LOVE IT!!!

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I have the GT-10B and the Boss SY300 in a huge pedalboard but after a 4 hours gig that thing got more and more heavy but now after I got this unit OMG!!! Great sound and sooo easy to carry

Armando Rodriguez
Submitted: 11/6/2018

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Well worth the money

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Good selection of effects.tuner lights
Pedals.

John Ady
Submitted: 9/26/2018

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Fantastic for the price

What is your opinion of this product?

I have used this live on both my Electric and Upright basses. Very good quality soundwise and easy to use.

Bryan M.
Submitted: 7/24/2018

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Not as good as expected

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More than a little disappointed in th GT1-B. The operation is not very "intuitive" as advertised. The preset patches are not listed in the owners manual. That requires downloading a separate file from Boss. The looper function is on the same patch as the delay, which makes it useless when using any other delay effect. To operate the tuner requires depressing two switches simultaneously, not what I consider convenient design. On the plus side, the tones available are decent and the cost is less than what one would spend for a separate tuner, octive pedal and delay. Simply for that reason is why I would even consider purchasing this again.

Bubba-Bass
Submitted: 4/23/2018

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This unit is amazing and well worth it!!

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It has some killer sounds, and the synth sounds are awesome. Amp modeling is is great too.
Pretty easy to maneuver thru and program.

JP
Submitted: 4/1/2018

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Could be amazing if not for little things!

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The great:
Effects and customization, amp modeling, very accurate tuner and fits in my backpack. Looks fantastic and LCD display is nice.Didnt flatten or mess with any pre existing EQ settings before pedal. The tone is amazing. I want so bad to give it 5 stars but there are issues.
The Good:
Ability to loop multiple times. The sound cuts thru mix very well and very easy to control.
The bad:
Pedal pad sensitivity. When trying to change effects it sometimes is glitchy and has a mind of its on and will scroll.
Almost aliken to a keyboard without weighted keys. If you don't apply perfect pressure you may not get the desired affect and one 5 or 6 spaces down the chain.During our set today the pedal started scrolling when barely touched and almost was disastrous. Fortunately I was using user presets and was able to get back quickly to right effect.
The Ugly
Looper skips time. You can time everything perfectly but no matter how perfect you are the looker will not stay in time for long term looking. It puts a pause in between.
The spacing between foot pads:
You have to be really careful selecting both pedals at once to activate tuner and looper.
No memory expansion to save loops. Once you unplug, loop is lost. I have over 20 yrs experience and have toured and recorded with country,southern gospel, contemporary and praise and worship artist. This is one of the best purchases I have made for home studio or small church setting. However, due to the pedal scrolling issue I would not take on road due to the possible disaster it would cause by the unweighted pedal pad issue.I love the concept, they just have some work to do....

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